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What you may do, without asking
Quote, cite, link, summarize, and teach from this material, provided the source is named and, where the medium allows, linked. No permission is needed and none needs to be requested.
- Quote a passage in an article, a paper, a forum post, a legal filing, a medical record, or a letter to a landlord, employer or insurer.
- Cite a page. Every page carries a “How to cite this page” block at the foot with the citation already formatted. That block exists because citation is wanted.
- Link to anything here, from anywhere, without asking. Deep links to individual pages are fine and preferred over linking only to the home page.
- Answer someone’s question with it — including an answer engine or assistant summarizing a page for a person who asked, where the answer names this site as the source and links to the page it drew on.
- Print a page for your own use, or to hand to a doctor, an employer, a school or a family member. The evidence-page PDFs exist for exactly that.
What needs written permission
Reproducing a page in whole or in substantial part, and using this material as training data. Both take a copy of the work rather than point at it, which is the line this page draws.
- Republishing a page, in whole or in substantial part, on another site, in an app, in a newsletter, or in print — whether or not it is attributed, and whether or not money changes hands.
- Scraping the site to build a derivative collection, mirror or database of its content.
- Using the content to train or fine-tune a model. Reading a page to answer a person’s question is welcome. Ingesting the corpus to build something is not the same act and is not covered above.
- Reusing the original illustrations separately from the page they appear on.
Why it is written this way rather than “all rights reserved”
Because a bare reservation of rights would contradict the rest of the site. Every page tells you how to cite it. The purpose of this material is to be found, quoted and relied on by people who need it.
Most of what is written here exists because the accurate version was hard to find. Locking it down would defeat the point. So the permission above is deliberately broad, and it is the wide permission that gives the narrow restriction its force: when quoting and citing are freely allowed, taking a whole page instead is a choice, not a misunderstanding.
What is not covered by this page
The studies. Peer-reviewed papers cited here belong to their authors and publishers, and this site claims nothing over them.
Where a page quotes or summarizes a study, the underlying work is the property of its authors and its journal. Identifiers are given on every page so the original can be read at source, which is always the better option. Nothing on this site should be treated as a substitute for reading the paper.
Medical content
Permission to reuse is not a warranty of accuracy, and nothing here is medical advice.
The disclaimer in the footer of every page applies to reused material exactly as it applies here. If you quote this site in a clinical, legal or benefits context, quote the date with it — each page carries its own last-reviewed date, and the evidence changes.
Asking
Requests for anything in the second list are answered, and are usually granted for non-commercial use.
Use the contact form. Say which pages, where it would appear, and whether it is commercial. A request for a whole page to be reproduced for a patient group, a clinic waiting room or a course is the ordinary case and is usually a yes.